Socialnetworking is the IT thing and now the American Bar Association wants a bite. Starting a networking site of their own called Legally Minded, they say they are like no others.

“We set out to do something different,” said Fred Faulkner, the ABA’s manager of interactive services in Chicago. “We looked at a lot of the professional and personal networking. We’re filling that gap by offering the best features of sites like Linkedln and Facebook and adding a bunch of content from the ABA and other high-quality content sources.”

Now, there are other lawyer-networking sites but according to Law.com, one main difference between them and Legally Minded is that it is not just for lawyers, but for any legal professional including paralegals, law librarians, and law students.

“LegallyMinded also has an interactive people map that puts you in the center,” Faulkner says. “All the people whose interests closely align with yours will appear near you so that you can identify them and begin building relationships.”

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